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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #25 on: 21 April 2014, 08:17:54 am »
Quote from: richfzs on 21 April 2014, 12:08:50 am
Quote from: darrsi on 20 April 2014, 11:58:57 pm
An ex girlfriends sister once asked me if that was my surname on my crash helmet..........Shoei.  :rolleyes


That's a bit harsh darrsi, dumping a lass because her sister's thick... :b



Is it just me, or do you get the same thing when you talk to a stranger and they find out you ride a bike, then they immediately give away their very little knowledge of bikes by saying "I've got a mate who's got an R1"


It really bugs me.  :wall
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #26 on: 21 April 2014, 10:06:54 am »
Quote from: goldfazer on 20 April 2014, 08:28:26 pm
'Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?'

Probably quite smart compared to the dumbest thing a biker has asked :lol

 :lol you ain't kiddin' gf
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #27 on: 21 April 2014, 10:15:33 am »
Who put that there?  Old git having just come back from grocers to find my bike under car. Silly sod had left handbrake off  :groan
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #28 on: 21 April 2014, 10:19:29 am »
Sounds like cable adjustment at the carbs to me.....have a play with them to see whats best......sticking throttle is an mot fail, and bloogy dangerous  :eek
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #29 on: 21 April 2014, 10:35:47 am »
Quote from: red98 on 21 April 2014, 10:19:29 am
Sounds like cable adjustment at the carbs to me.....have a play with them to see whats best......sticking throttle is an mot fail, and bloogy dangerous  :eek


erm, how dumb is it posting in the wrong thread?  :rollin :rollin
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #30 on: 21 April 2014, 10:40:55 am »
Hahahahaha nice on rich... He's forgotten how to ride...(dunno if he ever new lol) and now he forgotten how to post...better get urself down to spec savers red..
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #31 on: 21 April 2014, 10:46:55 am »
how fast does it go, seems the dumbest question I was ever asked. :pc
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #32 on: 21 April 2014, 11:06:31 am »
Quote from: red98 on 21 April 2014, 10:19:29 am
Sounds like cable adjustment at the carbs to me.....have a play with them to see whats best......sticking throttle is an mot fail, and bloogy dangerous  :eek
...looks like ..old timers has kicked in? :rolleyes
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #33 on: 21 April 2014, 11:54:49 am »
Quote from: Exupnut on 20 April 2014, 08:14:30 pm
I havn't got a bike licence but can I have a go....

+1 for that. Bloke at work asks me every time I take mine to work.
My answer is always "if you drop it you WILL damage it!" His answer "I wont drop it, I can ride a bicycle"
Yes really!! twunt
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #34 on: 21 April 2014, 01:02:43 pm »
I went to work on my R1, walked in wearing R1 jacket, bloke says " have you got an R1"? no I say a vespa I just wear the jacket to impress people, he still thinks I have a vespa not an R1  :rollin :rollin
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #35 on: 21 April 2014, 02:13:46 pm »
"Nice bike, but red ones are faster aren't they?"
 
 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
 
Poor deluded soul.......
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #36 on: 21 April 2014, 02:30:11 pm »
Stop at a shop dressed in full leathers, helmet in hand and I'm asked "Oh! Do you ride a motorbike"? :wall
My standard answer "No I always dress like this just for the heck of it"
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #37 on: 21 April 2014, 03:00:56 pm »
Quote from: unfazed on 21 April 2014, 02:30:11 pm
Stop at a shop dressed in full leathers, helmet in hand and I'm asked "Oh! Do you ride a motorbike"? :wall
My standard answer "No I always dress like this just for the heck of it"
Yep, I go to work wearing all my kit, carrying my helmet and get asked "did you come on the bike tonight?" He's not even taking the piss either. ::)
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #38 on: 21 April 2014, 03:10:58 pm »
I filled up and went to pay and the lady said are you on the bike.  I still had my helmet on. What gave it away said I. You walk funny in those boots says she.
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #39 on: 21 April 2014, 04:32:26 pm »
Quote from: nick crisp on 21 April 2014, 02:13:46 pm
"Nice bike, but red ones are faster aren't they?"
 
 :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
 
Poor deluded soul.......


yes everyone knows black ones are fastest
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Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #40 on: 21 April 2014, 04:47:55 pm »
Codgie....u been at that scrumpy again....?
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #41 on: 21 April 2014, 07:05:04 pm »
Quote from: bri h on 21 April 2014, 03:10:58 pm
I filled up and went to pay and the lady said are you on the bike.  I still had my helmet on. What gave it away said I. You walk funny in those boots says she.

Ha that's brilliant!

"I bet you're hot in that?" during Summer is the best I've had :(
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #42 on: 21 April 2014, 09:55:48 pm »
shoei mc fee, :lol
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #43 on: 22 April 2014, 09:23:56 am »
Went out one winters evening rain lashing down. to meet a group of friends. I walk into room in DRY light coat (Used Cage to get there)   -no gloves, jacket, helmet, m/c trousers or boots. One says " Are you on the bike this evening?"!!!! :rolleyes
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #44 on: 22 April 2014, 02:14:24 pm »
Full leathers, biker gloves, crash helmet. Go to barbers, have haircut and at the end he asks.... "You wanna some gel"? :-D
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #45 on: 22 April 2014, 02:18:58 pm »
"Are you crazy?.......Your gonna die!  :D
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #46 on: 22 April 2014, 04:15:55 pm »
a lady friend of mine asked once how long is your chopper :D
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #47 on: 22 April 2014, 09:05:05 pm »
standard question when someone discovers i ride a motorbike at work (its a bit corporate so mainly middle-class oxbridge second home in provence types)

"is it a Harley"

to which i reply "no", next question

"is it a chopper"

to which i reply "no" next question

"do you wear chaps"

to which i reply "no"

It might be easier and save time to explain from the outset that Easy Rider was a 1960`s film and poster from the US

to be fair the conversation in the opposite direction when i ask "do you have a boat" goes like this,

me "has it got a big feck off engine"

to which they reply "no"

me "are you rowing it"

to which they reply "no its a sailing dinghy laser class"

your thinking of Miami Vice or the University boat race




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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #48 on: 22 April 2014, 09:11:31 pm »
Not so much a question but a dumb saying I have heard a few times is "I'd kill myself on a bike" - like getting on one relieves them of their self preservation
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #49 on: 22 April 2014, 09:16:08 pm »
I was once asked why my bike was called a gene 515  :eek
No its a GENESIS :lol
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